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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1850

4 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

The Gold-bearing Quartz of California

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1850 · page 1

In our last publication we alluded briefly to to the interest which had been excited here by the exhibition of some fine specimens of gold-bearing quartz, said to be found in…

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The Importation of Coal

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 30 March 1850 · page 1

OF the countless thousands who witnessed the successive stages of yesterday's pageant, few have considered what special reasons there are that should claim for a British…

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Domestic Intelligence. Mineralogical Examination, Not Chemical Analysis, of Ores From Major Lockyer's Mine "Maratan."

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1850 · page 4

THE three specimens sent me present much the same external aspect, that is, heterogeneous, unmetallic, rough, porous, carious, and a blending of the colours green (light); green and brown, occasionally with…

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The Mines of Spain

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 1 June 1850 · page 2

AT the period of my visit to this part of Spain, public attention was engrossed by a species of enterprise, which could scarcely be called new, as it was only revived, after…

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